Over the course of three days, 150 researchers, practitioners and policy makers at the conference ‘Putting Children First: identifying solutions and taking action to tackle poverty and inequality in Africa’ discussed the available evidence on child poverty and its policy responses, as well as knowledge and policy gaps. Various take-away messages stood out.
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Posted: 29th November
Anne Geniets and Niall Winters discuss the Mobile Community Health Worker project (mCHW) Kenya. This is a mobile learning intervention to train community health workers and their supervisors in the assessment of developmental milestones of children under five in two marginalised communities in Kenya.
Posted: 27th November
Ten new grants through the third round of the ESRC-DFID Raising Learning Outcomes programme have been announced.
Posted: 23rd November
Following on from the Putting Children First conference, Christian Oldiges, OPHI, Oxford University, explains how governments can apply the Alkire-Foster (AF) method - a flexible technique for measuring poverty - to identify multidimensionally poor children and compute Child Multidimensional Poverty Indices (C-MPIs) that can be used to guide public policies.
Posted: 23rd November
Dr Agnes Akosua Aidoo provided the keynote address during the opening session of the conference ‘Putting Children First’ on 23 October 2017. During her inspirational speech, she reminded all participants of the urgency to fight child poverty in Africa, both for improving current and future lives.
Posted: 22nd November
A report by the cross-party International Development Committee, released yesterday, identifies priorities for the Department for International Development (DFID) to ensure the promise of the education SDG4 is realized.
Posted: 9th November
How is it that some children, despite growing up in the face of adversity, are able to fare well, and even thrive later in life? What helps children 'overcome the odds' even when the odds are stacked against them? Gina Crivello, Senior Research Officer at Young Lives, explores these questions.
Posted: 2nd November
In a blog published by Young Lives (2 November 2017), Paul Dornan, shares his reflections on the Putting Children First conference.
Posted: 20th October
Despite important strides in the fight against poverty over the past two decades, child poverty remains widespread and persistent, particularly in sub-Saharan Africa. From 23-25 October, policymakers, researchers and NGOs will come together to identify solutions for fighting child poverty and inequality in Africa at the Putting Children First conference in Addis Ababa, Ethiopia.
Posted: 19th October
About 20 years ago I had the opportunity to go to war-ravaged Sierra Leone to study the demobilisation and reintegration process of ex-child soldiers.